site

American  

[sahyt] / saɪt /

noun

• sites
  plural

1. the position or location of a town, building, etc., especially as to its environment.

   the site of our summer cabin.

2. the area or exact plot of ground on which anything is, has been, or is to be located.

   the site of ancient Troy.

   Synonyms:

   place, location, position

3. Computers. website.

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verb (used with object)

• sites,
  present (3rd person singular)
• sited,
  past participle,  past
• siting
  present participle

1. to place in or provide with a site; locate.

2. to put in position for operation, as artillery.

   to site a cannon.

site British  

/ saɪt /

noun

1. 1. the piece of land where something was, is, or is intended to be located

      a building site

      archaeological site

   2. ( as modifier )

      site office

2. an internet location where information relating to a specific subject or group of subjects can be accessed

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verb

1. (tr) to locate, place, or install (something) in a specific place

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• resite
  verb (used with object)
• intersite
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• sites
  plural

Participles

• siting
  present
• sited
  past

Conjugated Forms

Present

• site
  simple
• sites
  simple
• have sited
  perfect
• has sited
  perfect
• am siting
  progressive
• are siting
  progressive
• is siting
  progressive
• have been siting
  perfect progressive
• has been siting
  perfect progressive

Past

• sited
  simple
• had sited
  perfect
• was siting
  progressive
• were siting
  progressive
• had been siting
  perfect progressive

Future

• will site
  simple
• will have sited
  perfect
• will be siting
  progressive
• will have been siting
  perfect progressive

Etymology

Origin of site

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin situs “position, arrangement, site” (presumably originally, “leaving, setting down”), equivalent to si-, variant stem of sinere “to leave, allow to be” + -tus suffix of verbal action

Explanation

A site is a location. The leader of a Zombie Army might remind his underlings: “Your web site is just a collection of pages at one address on the Web. Your burial site is where you find more soldiers!” Site can also refer to a specific parcel of land, such as a building site or a burial site. Although a website has no physical location, it does have a virtual one, which is reached the same way a physical location is: by going to an address.

Example Sentences

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site sites sited siting

They have been counting heavily on aerial assistance to bring the situation under control, with two water-bombing aircraft from Sweden and two Dutch military Chinook helicopters backing up two Belgian helicopters on site.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

His 31-acre property abuts the Terafab site and shares about 4,000 feet of fence with Musk’s land.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

Washington selected the site for the President’s House and oversaw aspects of its planning and construction, but left office in 1797 and died in 1799.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

A team of builders struck gold—$10 million worth of it—during construction work at the site of an old Belgian brewery set to be used as a homeless shelter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

I don’t want to get caught on this site.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

But the state’s dream of a vast network of green fuel production sites and pipelines serving thousands of hydrogen-powered vehicles across California is a harder sell.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

Frogs, toads, and salamanders have delicate skeletons that do not fossilize easily, so their remains are uncommon in the fossil record outside asphaltic sites such as La Brea Tar Pits.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

You can also find apprenticeships on sites like LinkedIn and Indeed and at apprenticeship recruitment events.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Just like Donald Trump, also the son of a bootstrapping developer, the Kushner boys talk of visiting building sites as children with their father, Charlie.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

He was a big financial guy recently sent to prison for what the news sites called “the D and G trading scandal.”

From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart

That may already be on the way, via a newly introduced council amendment that would allow bigger data centers to be sited in rural and agricultural areas instead of residential corners—a move the organizers oppose.

From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026

There are no small reactors yet in the U.S., but dozens of companies are trying to get them approved and sited.

From Barron's ● Feb. 9, 2026

There are Iron Dome batteries sited across Israel.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2024

“Even smart, climate-saving clean-energy development like solar projects are often badly sited and destroy important kit fox habitat,” the center says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2024

Of special concern was the fact that the buildings would be sited adjacent to newly dug canals and lagoons.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Now, as we intended when siting the center in Jackson Park, many more will visit the South Side.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026

“We can do whatever we want in the markets,” he said, “but if our plants run into a hostile siting and permitting regime, they will not get built.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026

“I have clients siting on the edge of their seat, waiting to find out if it was their jewelry that was recovered,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025

It says: "Its siting demonstrates a deliberate attempt to establish an intimate bond between natural beauty and remoteness on the one hand and human spiritual commitment on the other."

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2025

She is in bed in her own room, and her father is siting beside her, watchful and anxious.

From Only an Irish Girl by Duchess

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